Couple, Dog Rescued Unhurt From Blazing Sailboat Off Jersey Shore

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Aug. 9, 2015, 9:24 PM GMT / Updated Aug. 9, 2015, 9:26 PM GMT

By Matt Johnson and Alex Johnson

As black smoke billowed in the sky above the ocean, the Coast Guard and local police crews rescued a man, a woman and their dog after their sailboat caught fire Sunday morning off the New Jersey coast.

The Coast Guard received a mayday call just before 10:50 a.m. that a boat was on fire about 3 miles east of Ocean City, the agency said. The couple and the dog were retrieved from a small dinghy when Coast Guard and Ocean City police rescue crews arrived about 10 minutes later, it said.